The artillery battle between the capital ships of the British and German fleets had lasted for thirty minutes.

The desperately charged British fleet, despite boiling the boilers, was never able to exceed twenty-two knots at a top speed.

Without speed, the initiative in the battle was completely in the hands of the German fleet, and the course of the battle was like a replica of the Battle of Falkland during World War I. The two Shane sisters, relying on their speed advantage of nearly 10 knots, firmly controlled the distance between the two sides within 27,000 kilometers.

In this thirty-minute artillery battle, the two sisters of Shane, two to six, together hit six British ships with fourteen fifteen-inch shells. However, at a distance of 27,000 kilometers, these "old guns" who had experienced World War I could not penetrate the main armor belt of Shane's sister ship at all, and all the shells were either blocked or bounced off by the thick armor. Although a lot of external equipment in the superstructure was destroyed, the damage caused was within the tolerable range.

As for the Nelson, the largest caliber of the main gun, the only sixteen-inch gun he could use, fired more than fifty shells in thirty minutes, and actually only managed to achieve one hit, but this shell was blocked by the thick armor of the Scharnhorst. The shell that hit the turret, although it did not directly blow up the turret, damaged the structure inside the base, and the only hit was purely blind.

At the same time, the counterattack of the sister ships of Shane was much sharper, and in 30 minutes, the two ships hit a total of 6 British ships with 30 rounds of 16-inch shells and 1,200 kilograms of grenade warheads, which could not penetrate the hard armor of the battleships, but lightly swept the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns on the surface of the dense hull into the sea.

The greatest success of the Royal Navy's desperate charge was achieved by light ships.

A torpedo fired by the charging destroyer hit a Valkyrie-class air defense cruiser, damaging it, while a 203-mm gun fired from a Hao-class heavy cruiser hit a destroyer's ammunition depot, sinking the destroyer and sinking a destroyer Z. During a fierce exchange of fire between the light ships of both sides. On the German side, a number of ships were seriously wounded, and the two light cruisers were hit by the eight-inch guns fired by the British cruisers, and were forced to retreat after suffering heavy losses, and forced the two pocket battleships that had previously helped the capital ship wash the decks of the British battleships with 283mm guns to turn their guns to support the light ships.

On the cruiser side, the biggest flaw of the German fleet was the lack of powerful eight-inch guns, the largest caliber of which was only a six-inch 155-mm gun. Until the two pocket battleships turned their guns. Joining the battlefield, relying on the great power of the 11-inch (283) main gun, it turned the tide of the battle.

Among the British cruisers in the charge, two of the only remaining 10,000-ton heavy cruisers, one was hit by three 283-mm shells, the two forward eight-inch turrets were all badly beaten, and the other heavy cruiser was also smashed by the main guns of the pocket battleship and paralyzed at sea.

In forty minutes of fierce artillery battle, among the auxiliary ships of the British Navy. Two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers were crippled, and three destroyers were sunk in the artillery battle, with a slight outnumber of ships lost in the overall number of ships than the Germans.

There is not much difference in strength between the auxiliary ships of the two sides. At first, the British had a partial advantage over the six-inch guns of the German ships with the eight-inch guns of the cruisers, but the German destroyers had an even greater advantage in the caliber of the guns. With the two pocket battleships, the twelve eleven-inch guns became an important weight that determined the balance of the battle between the light ships.

In the fierce exchange of light fire, the British side also suffered heavy casualties.

At 10:35 a.m., the sky was buzzing with the roar of airplanes again. The noose that was strangled on the throat of the Royal Navy was finally accepted at this moment.

When the previous round of naval aviation sorties. The German side sent only Stuka JU87 bombers, but did not send torpedo attack planes, which posed the greatest and deadliest threat to the battleships. Due to the fact that the course of the torpedo attack is easy to be judged in advance by the opponent during the attack, coupled with the slow speed and poor protection of the early torpedo planes, the dispatch often suffers heavy losses under the blow of the enemy's anti-aircraft fire network, and the effect of the premature attack is not good.

At that time, it was mainly due to the fact that the British fleet was arranged in a dense formation. Anti-aircraft fire was intact, and the premature sortie of torpedo attacks was ineffective. Therefore, JU87 was deliberately put on the field to weaken the anti-aircraft fire of the British fleet first. After another forty minutes of artillery fighting, relying on the "deck washing" of the Shane sisters using grenades on the hull of the British battleship, the blow of the throat finally came.

However, in this wave of air raids. The first to appear were the JU87, the Stuka bomber, and forty HE112s responsible for suppressing the attack.

Seventy Stuka bombers turned on the wind whistle located in the nose and pounced on the British fleet with a piercing scream. Unlike the previous round of siege of battleships, this round of cruisers scattered around the battleships was also bombarded by Stuka.

When the Stuka bombers began to bomb the British ships, the German battleships on the surface were also ready to launch a fierce attack, and all the destroyers fired torpedoes at the British fleet indiscriminately and opened heavy fire at the same time, and the noose twisted by the sea and air cooperation was fiercely wrapped around the neck of the British fleet, and then tightened hard.

The six most critical capital battleships were besieged by forty Stuka JU87s, and in addition, even HE112 fighters joined the battlefield at this time. The HE112 with a 100-kilogram or 200-kilogram small bombing bow hanging on the belly of the aircraft could not blow up the thick armor of the battleship, but it could blow up the flesh and blood of the sailors on the ship, and it could also easily blow the remaining anti-aircraft guns into the sea. The strafing of the 13mm machine guns or 20mm cannons on the HE112 turned the decks of the ships into hell on earth.

After once again inflicting heavy damage on the remaining air defense of the British ships, the belated FI167 torpedo attack aircraft slowly appeared at 10:55 a.m.

After once again inflicting heavy damage on the remaining air defense of the British ships, the belated FI167 torpedo attack aircraft slowly appeared at 10:55 a.m.

After once again inflicting heavy damage on the remaining air defense of the British ships, the belated FI167 torpedo attack aircraft slowly appeared at 10:55 a.m.

After once again inflicting heavy damage on the remaining air defense of the British ships, the belated FI167 torpedo attack aircraft slowly appeared at 10:55 a.m.

After once again inflicting heavy damage on the remaining air defense of the British ships, the belated FI167 torpedo attack aircraft slowly appeared at 10:55 a.m. (To be continued......)